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from August, 2008

First, the Oasis vs. Jay Z feud. Then the Wonderwall mash up by DJ Danny Diggz. Now came a full Cookin’ Soul album that mashes 10 tracks from both artists.
But is it news? Wonderwall has been popular material for re-purposing since it came out.
Here, I made an opentape.

Cute. I’m betting they were taken at the Avalon, one of my fav places in town. Kinda easy to spot the anachronisms, like the Crown Plaza logo and the bunnies’ silly Lindsay Lohan hair. Makes you appreciate all the details on the show even more. Love love love Mad Men.

Clothes, makeup, bags, and school supplies with 90210 graphics are coming. They’ll have both the old and the new logo, but you’ll have to wait till 09 to get them. So much for easy Xmas shopping.
There’s of course an abundance of merch bearing the iconography of my fair city Beverly Hills, and I’ll take some Camp Beverly Hills – the Juicy Couture of the 80s.

Visual artists Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg did the research to find out some answers. They analyzed 1000 songs in various genres and charted references to body parts. Gospel references the body the least and hip hop the most. About 1 in 4 hip hop songs has a back/ass/butt reference, though perhaps I’ll leave it to other lyricists to come up with the best term.

This limited edition bear from Germany’s Steiff will be available at Neiman Marcus starting in September. It wears Lagerfeld’s signature slim suit, high collar, and dark glasses, but no rings! At $1500, this bear is destined for as much reverence as the design icon that inspired it.

You already know whether you’re a boy or a girl. This guy wrote code that analyzes your browser history to tell how much you behave like a male or a female online. You can also see if sites you visit lean female or male. And it’s all private, of course.

A new, modern McDonald’s opened this summer in Palm Springs, mecca of mid-century residential architecture. Smoke Tree Commons shopping center in Palm Springs. Palm Springs architect James Cioffi designed it, and the interiors were done by Duane Ahmet of D S A Design Systems, Ltd. in Burbank, CA.